adventurism

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ədˈvɛn(t)ʃəɹɪz(ə)m/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Political strategy focusing on individual actions such as assassinating political enemies. countable,uncountable
  2. The behavior of an adventurer; risk-taking. countable,uncountable
    — […] she really hadn’t wanted me to think of her as given over wholly to sexual excess and adventurism […]
  3. The taking of excessive risks by a government in their political, economic or foreign affairs. countable,uncountable
    — 1993, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedom, Nairobi: EAEP, Part I, Chapter 2, p. 22, Even where they were aware of the devastating effects of imperialism on the subject peoples, as in Conrad’s description of the dying victims of colonial adventurism in Heart of Darkness, they could not free themselves from the Eurocentric basis of their vision.

词形变化

adventurisms plural

词源

Etymology tree
English adventure
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English adventurism
From adventure + -ism.
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